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- Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more do you want?"…
- Imagine we could accelerate continuously at 1 g-what we're comfortable with on good old terra firma-to the midpoint of our voyage, and decelerate continuously at…
- The chief deficiency I see in the skeptical movement is its polarization: Us vs. Them - the sense that we have a monopoly on the…
- We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with…
- An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth - scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and…
- One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re…
- People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for skeptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to…
- You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don't see things as clearly…
- But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as…
- Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe…
- Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we…
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